COSTLY ATTACKS OF NO AVAIL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 5

COSTLY ATTACKS OF NO AVAIL

THE GERMAN ASSAULT IN THE WEST HALF THEIR EFFECTIVES LOST IN ATTEMPTS By Telegraph—Press Assooia,tion--Copyrlfflit A French official wireless message states: ''TheGorman effort't? adduce in tlie Artois aud Champagne regions has definitely come' to nothing '|<hu assaults, which were long prepared, wero carried out at points forums salients in tho German .lines. .Each assault was preceded by the firing 0 f a for mutable mine, which it is ostimated took three months to prepare Tlio onlv result is that the Germans have occupied a few craters and secured a footing in some French salients. It is certain that the Germans lost liaK the effectives engaged in the attacks. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Son-ices.) (Rec, February 17, 7.40 p.m.) Colonel Rousset, tlie noted Parisian military out Germans have delivered twenty attacks in strength on the Western fronttwo against the Yser, between Ypres and the sea, eight between Lens and 'Arras, three between Frise and Dompierre, two 'on Soissons,' three in the Champagne, two in Upper Alsace, the result; practically, has been nil. THE ATTACKS ON THE BRITISH LINE Tlie enemy fired 5000 shells into the British positiou"^t n, Hwg™o7slmday Correspondents at British Headquarters show that there has been an increase in tho German use of a trench mortar, which throws COlb shells The production of mortars has infinitely multiplied lately. FRENCH RETRIEVE LOST TRENCHES. The High Commissioner reports: , ■ « T ' 1 ;t, ™ U X J London, February 16, 4.30 p.m. In Champagne the French recaptured by grenade fighting some of the tienchos on tne lahure-oonuno Head. t .„ , . , , ... London, February -16, 12.35 p.m. •Tho artillery bombardment on boih sides is heavy. Thero has been crenade fighting during tlie past 24 hours between Ypres-Comincs Canal and the railway. The fight still continues. 1 - "The capture of 600 yards of our front line, reported yesterday, was preceded by a heavy bombardment, and tho explosion of five mines 'which rendered tho trenches untenable. ' ' "Attacks over 4000 yards of' front were repulsed everywhere, with considerable enemy loss. The trench_ captured frequently changed hands •• last year, and was called the 'international trench.'" "WHOLE WAR TO ONE END-ONE ONLY" » WAGED ON ONE GREAT FRONT BY ONE GREAT ARMY. (■"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. February 17, 7.40 p.m.) . ~ • • • , ~ , London, February 16. X, x J ',° et 'f Pn . n^ n ; !" )ns P' red --"-ticle, states that thero is no doubt that the Quadruple Entente is on the eve of a now phase. A confcrence of ho Allied Commanders-in-Chief will soon bo held at Paris in order to compute tho men and limterinl at tho Allies command, and draw up concordant plans to regulate a mutual interchange of men and material. Such interchaiiWs will be rendered easier, if neccssary, by fiscal Customs conventions. "This means practising the principle of the ivhole war "to one eiid and one onlv waged on one front, by one army, and one slock of arms and munitions. Tlie day is not fny distant when Italy will take vwirouuco on Austria by strikiii" ut Ciei'maux.** i °